Benzema moves into fourth place in all-time European Cup goal charts

Karim Benzema continues to construct on his European Cup legacy, together with his strike towards Sheriff transferring him up into fourth place within the competitors’s all-time goalscoring charts. The French hitman has 72 objectives to his identify and has now surpassed 
Raúl‘s 71 strikes.

Benzema has scored in every of the final 17 editions of the continent’s elite membership competitors. His first aim got here within the 2005/06 season towards Rosenborg, for Olympique Lyon, for whom he netted 12 instances, whereas his different 60 objectives have come as a Actual Madrid participant.

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The primary of his objectives as a Actual Madrid participant in Europe was towards AC Milan on 3 November 2009. In complete, he has discovered the web towards 34 groups on this competitors, with Galatasaray on the receiving finish probably the most instances (5 objectives). Forward of the Frenchman within the record of European Cup prime scorers are Cristiano Ronaldo (136), Messi (121) and Lewandowski (75).